The numbers
How fast Murof is and how much it handles, from real load tests on ordinary servers.
Performance
Measured Nov 11, 2026 · Murof 1.0 release candidate with the big-forum speed work, on a 4 vCPU 2.3 GHz cloud VM with 15 GB RAM; Murof pinned to 2 vCPUs (one process); test forum of 500,000 members, 555,555 threads and 10 million posts (7.8 GB)
Median across home, boards, threads, profiles, search and posting at 50 page views/s on the 10M-post forum
Same run; thread pages alone stay under 10 ms at every forum size
On one CPU core at 10M posts with search in the mix; 85/s for browsing without search, ~90/s on a 200k-post forum
Members browsing at once, each opening a new page every 30 s (the usual 15-minute 'online' count would be several times higher)
107 replies/s accepted on the 10M-post forum, median save 2 ms, p95 57 ms
Server process at full load on the 10M-post forum (65-90 MB when quiet); the OS file cache holds the database
500,000 members, 555,555 threads
Process launch to ready, even at 10M posts; first home page within ~250 ms
Admin › Backups, 7.8 GB database
Average 320-character posts, search index included
Random-arrival traffic (70% guests, 30% members, 4% searches, members posting) for 30-40 s per rate on a fresh server; latency timed from each request's due time; ceiling = highest rate with p95 under 200 ms
Right now
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